Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation.

He paused for her assent and compassion; and she forced herself to say, "Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."

They all looked their assent; it seemed too awful a moment for speech.

Elinor bowed her assent.

Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon’s injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate.

Elinor could NOT remember it;—but her mother, without waiting for her assent, continued, "And his manners, the Colonel’s manners are not only more pleasing to me than Willoughby’s ever were, but they are of a kind I well know to be more solidly attaching to Marianne.

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She takes my silence as assent.

Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes

Their murmurs of assent and disapproval gave her a sense of order and rightness.